Really good news and thanks to you both.
Have been having problems with recent releases of FF in Mint and some other distros. Other folks seem to be reporting the same (not only this Forum). Opera and Midori seem to function even when I've got FF running and overloaded (deliberately!) with open tabs and windows. What was the reasoning for Jemimah to switch to Midori? Did she ever give a full expalantion? Was it a netbook-only matter?
Boot-up is very very slow with a long detente before the DE emerges. Still getting unacceptable grief in res. selection, resetting xorgwiz with SiS chipset. Definitely something amiss - one of the outstanding features of all the alphas/betas/RCs was the speed - that is now not only lost but it's slower than all the 32bit derivatives on the same machine.
I imagine the next step will be to reduce the .iso complement?!

The Iblio server is a bit slow
Any torrents or mirrors welcome . . .
Should this be released as our first official 64bit Puppy? I hope so . . .

FD64-520 went straight to desktop, connected to Ethernet
and I was in and browsing.
That is the way we like it!
Hopefully Icyos will do a review . . .
http://www.youtube.com/user/icyos

Do remember (I forgot again 'fatdog pfix=ram', when you want a clean boot up - most Puppys use 'puppy pfix=ram')

Had a problem importing my bookmarks again
I blame the Fox . . .
In the end I opened my saved HTML as a web page

In order to use the PPM (which was unpopulated)
I had to click the 'Configure Package Manager'

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Fatdog64
Fatdog is a nice piece of work.
I wanted to get PSIP2 working in it but I need
the 32 bit code (being developed) + the 64bit compile (available).
So that would require a bit of time . . . _________________Puppy WIKI

Sage, you have 4 options:
a) pfix=vesa
b) pfix=vesa nomodeset
c) pfix=vesa,nox and once you're in terminal, run xorgwizard-old
d) pfix=vesa,nox nomodeset and once you're in terminal, run xorgwizard-old
Any

Ed,
Your bookmark problem is probably access issue - it's probably "spot" can't access your bookmark file. Use Rox to go to that bookmark file, then select "Properties", and make sure that "World" has read permission. Of - if youcan't be bothered, edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser and change that to "firefox" instead of "firefox-spot".

Many thanks for your prompt suggestions, James.
I guess it's the strange combo of SiS chipset + cr*p Dell monitor. I think it sets up VESA by default without pfix=vesa? Problem is, every other 32/64 distro, Puppy & others, finds 1024x768 without this hassle. Either way, I am unable to get the higher res. by any subterfuge now, including setting it impossibly high on monitor capability and throttling back to 1024x768, which used to work on an earlier RC.
There is another weird and worrying feature now. The video DE never starts spontaneously - it holds at a flashing cursor, not prompt, after booting. Hitting 'x', (perhaps other alphanumerics? but not 'Enter') yields the desktop???
sr0 still not 'unmounting' from right-click on icon - needs to enter Pmount/mount/close panel/unmount !

edit: I've been running fd520 final for a few hours and no problems so
far, the wallpaper is a photo of our cat and she wants to go out and
play with the chipmonk that's watching from the safe side of the door

Makes sense.
Fatdog uses the security of its own downloading folder . . .
OK will try later when back in 64bit world
Would just moving the bookmarks to the spot download directory be sufficient or must permissions still be altered?_________________Puppy WIKI

Followed instructions and installed dbus from package manager. As you can see from the screen shot it says dbus installed incorrectly. Not sure what to do about incorrect installation.

I have changed/removed spot from default browser and firefox in /usr/share/applications. Can I remove the default download folder and spot as I have one outside of save file? any other things to do to get it working like a standard puppy.

All in all seems to be working fine, looking forward to trying to fix the Fatdog install on his AMD socket FM1 system.

Sage,
520 went under a couple of kernel changes - some of the betas used 2.6.38.8 and 2.6.39.4, the 520-rc uses 2.6.39.4, 520-rc2 uses 3.0.3 (same as final), and kirk optimised the settings on each iteration. It's possible that it could cause slowdown in your particular configuration - but the rest of us don't feel it (definitely not me or kirk or rcrsn51, we don't feel the slowdown).

I'll leave the graphics question to kirk when he's back. It's odd though that you need to press "x" before the DE starts, I've never encountered any of those issues. That being said, you're running in full install, I suppose?

Fishy, just run this:

Code:

dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

and you're good to go.
You can remove "/root/spot/Downloads" but please don't remove "/root/spot" as it's used not only by firefox but others._________________Fatdog64, Slacko and Puppeee user. Puppy user since 2.13.
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